Nearly everyone knows that Aaron Burr shot Alexander Hamilton, but almost nobody knows that Burr was wanted for murder while he was the vice president.  Few people are aware that Aaron Burr was even the vice president at all, and fewer would expect, given the historically serene nature of contemporary politics, that an American vice president has ever been wanted for murder while in office.  Nixon nearly went to prison for eavesdropping.  Bill Clinton was impeached over a series of sexual episodes.  Because of the Hamilton affair, Burr was wanted by two states on charges of homicide.  He essentially spent part of his vice presidency in hiding. Even stranger than all of these relations is that Aaron Burr was very nearly our third president instead of Thomas Jefferson, who despised Burr's lack of character despite their being in (what many of the founding fathers claimed to abhor but would very easily pass today for) the same political party.  Burr...(Read Full Article)